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November 22, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

This year, construction workers Bright Power formed one of the first ever unions to at a solar power company. But on Monday, the company fire the entire construction crew — in the middle of bargaining their first contract — and instead announced that they would be replaced by subcontractors. Unionized workers told Vice reporter Lauren Gurley […]

October 21, 2019
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

A girls’ high school soccer team in Burlington, Vermont made waves on Friday when they took off their uniform jerseys mid-game to reveal white T-shirts bearing the message “#EQUALPAY.” The crowd chanted “equal pay” in response—many wearing the #EQUALPAY jerseys the team had sold as part of a fundraising effort to diversify the Greater Burlington […]

August 15, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Two former Jones Day associates, a married couple, filed suit against the firm alleging various forms of discrimination, retaliation, and interference. They first allege that the firm’s parental leave policy providing 10 weeks of paid leave to biological parents of any gender who are primary caregivers, but an additional 8 weeks to biological mothers as […]

May 8, 2019
News & Commentary

Bibeka Shrestha

The biggest internationally coordinated strike by Lyft and Uber drivers is expected to take place today in major U.S. cities and in the United Kingdom, Australia, and South America. Driver demands vary by organizing group, but include calls for livable incomes, job security, and regulated fares. A study recently released by the Economic Policy Institute […]

March 5, 2019
News & Commentary

Bibeka Shrestha

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled Monday that the Trump administration illegally prevented the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from collecting more robust pay data from employers. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan found that the Office of Management and Budget’s decision to stay an Obama-era regulation providing for the collection of such pay data was […]

February 5, 2019
News & Commentary

Bibeka Shrestha

New Jersey on Monday became the fourth state to raise its hourly minimum wage to $15. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed the bill into law, paving the way for the new minimum wage to be phased in over five years. New Jersey joins California, Massachusetts, New York, and the District of Columbia in adopting a […]

November 1, 2018
News & Commentary

Ryan Wheeler

Today is Latina Equal Pay Day, marking the date into the year that Latinx women have to work to make up the pay disparity between them and white men in 2017. On average, Latinx women are paid only 53 cents for every dollar paid to white non-Hispanic men. White women, in contrast, make 79 cents for […]

August 8, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

In a hard-fought win for organized labor, Missouri voters repealed a so-called “right-to-work” law enacted last year by Missouri’s Republican state legislature and former Republican governor by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. The New York Times reports that the victory in Missouri follows other indicators of a resurgence in popular support for the labor movement, including […]

July 12, 2018
News & Commentary

Ryan Wheeler

The BBC has made progress in closing the wage gap between its male and female stars, but its dozen highest-paid stars continue to be all men. An enormous pay disparity at the network was revealed last year, causing outrage among many employees and members of the British public. Since last year, the median pay gap […]

In Memoriam: Judge Stephen Reinhardt

Jun 13, 2018 Benjamin Sachs

The Harvard Law Review dedicated its latest issue to Judge Reinhardt and published a series of In Memoriam pieces about the Judge. The series is available here. My own contribution focused on Rizo v. Yovino, the Equal Pay Act case that Judge Reinhardt authored and that was issued by the ninth circuit shortly after his death. The piece […]

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